BRANNONLAB.ORG - Key Persons


Dr. Ariel Starr

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor University of Washington Site

Dr. Elizabeth M. Brannon

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator
Dr. Elizabeth M. Brannon graduated Summa Cum Laude from The University of Pennsylvania, where she received her B.A. in Physical Anthropology in 1992. She received a Masters degree in Anthropology and a PhD in Psychology from Columbia University. She has been at Duke in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience since the year 2000 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Full Professor in 2012. She is currently the Director of Graduate Studies for the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program (CNAP) and the head of the developmental area within P&N. She maintains a secondary appointment in the department of Evolutionary Anthropology. She has received numerous academic awards and honors including the Young Investigator Award from The Society for Experimental Psychology, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, a Merck Scholar Award, and a James McDonnell Scholar Award. She is on the editorial board of Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, Psychological Science, and Infancy. Dr. Brannon's research is funded by The National Institutes of Health and The National Science Foundation. She teaches courses on cognitive development and comparative psychology and maintains two laboratories focused on quantitative cognition in nonhuman primates and human infants.

Dr. Emily Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor University of Scranton Site

Dr. Emily Szkudlarek

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate University of Wisconsin Site

Dr. Evan MacLean

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Anthropology University of Arizona Lab

Dr. Jamie Roitman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor University of Illinois Chicago Lab

Dr. Jessica Cantlon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon Lab

Dr. Joonkoo Park

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor UMass Amherst Lab

Dr. Kerry Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Utah State University Lab

Dr. Kerry Lewis Graham

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Texas State University Site

Dr. Melissa Libertus

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh Lab

Dr. Michael Pinhas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Ariel University, Israel Site

Dr. Rosa Li

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate Duke University Site

Dr. Sarah Jones

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Berea College Site

Dr. Umay Suanda

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor University of Connecticut Lab

Monica Carlson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Biology Princeton Lab

Rachel Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Psychology U of Michigan Site

Sami Yousif

Sami is a MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow at University Pennsylvania. His primary interest is space - how it is that we perceive, interact with, and represent the spatial world around us. Sami sees space as a ‘case study' of mental representation more broadly. Much of his work touches on broader themes in cognitive science, namely how it is that complex information is formatted in the mind. In our lab, he is studying whether and how people ‘see' number, as well as how they represent the topological structure of space.

Stephanie Bugden

Job Titles:
  • Post - Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania